Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
JORDAN PETERSONIf you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
More Jordan Peterson Quotes
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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